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• ASHFORD BUS 644 Entire Course (Old)

• ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 1 Assignment Home Style
  Cookies (Old)

• ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 1 Assignment Home Style
  Cookies (Old)
• ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 1 DQ 1 Why Productivity
  Matters (Old)
• ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 1 DQ 2 Benefits of
  Forecasting (Old)
• ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 2 Assignment Design of Work
  Systems (Old)
• ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 2 DQ 1 Plant Capacity (Old)

• Home-Style Cookies. Read the Home-style Cookies
  case study below. Answer questions 1-7 in a two
  to four (2-4) page APA style paper. Your paper
  should be in paragraph form (avoid the use of
  bullet points), and supported with the concepts
  outlined in your text

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• ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 1 DQ 1 Why Productivity
  Matters (Old)

• ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 1 DQ 2 Benefits of
  Forecasting (Old)

• Why Productivity Matters. It is sometimes easy to
  overlook the importance of productivity. National
  figures are often reported in the media. They may
  seem to be ho-hum theres nothing glamorous
  about them to get our attention.

• Read the M L Manufacturing case on page 130 in
  your text. Prepare a weekly forecast clearly
  labeling your calculations. Explain the benefits
  of a more formalized approach to forecasting
  using course related principles in 200 words. You
  must respond to at least two of your classmates
  postings to receive full credit.

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• ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 2 Assignment Design of Work
  Systems (Old)

• ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 2 DQ 1 Plant Capacity (Old)

• Design of Work Systems. Read the Making
  Hotplates case. Answer questions 1-4 in a two to
  four (2-4) page APA style paper. Your paper
  should be in paragraph form (avoid the use of
  bullet points), and supported with the concepts
  outlined in your text.

• Plant Capacity. A small building contractor has
  recently experienced two successive years in
  which work opportunities exceeded the firms
  capacity. The contractor must now make a decision
  on capacity for next year

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• ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 3 Assignment Wal-Mart (Old)

• ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 3 DQ 1 Quality improvement
  (Old)

• Wal-Mart. Read the Hello, Wal-Mart? case.
  Answer questions 1-2 in a two to four (2-4) page
  APA style paper. Your paper should be in
  paragraph form (avoid the use of bullet points),
  and supported with the concepts outlined in your
  text

• Quality Improvement. Read Chick-n-Gravy Dinner
  Line on page 414 in your text. Explain your
  analysis using course related principles in 200
  words. Respond to at least two of your
  classmates postings. 

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• ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 3 DQ 2 Inspection of Toys
  (Old)

• ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 4 Assignment Inventory
  Control (Old)

• Inspection of Toys. Read Toys, Inc. on page 460
  in your text. Indicate your recommendations using
  course related principles in 200 words. Respond
  to at least two of your classmates postings

• Inventory Control. Read the case study below
  Harvey Industries. Provide reasoning for the
  current financial distress of the company and
  make recommendations for improvements to the new
  company president

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• ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 4 DQ 1 Planning for Service
  Operations (Old)

• ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 4 DQ 2 Production Strategies
  (Old)

• Planning for Service Operations. Service
  operations often face more difficulty in planning
  than their manufacturing counterparts. However,
  service does have certain advantages that
  manufacturing often does not.

• Production Strategies. Read Eight Glasses a Day
  (EGAD) on page 507 in your text. Answer
  questions 1 and 2. Explain your analysis using
  course related principles in 200 words. Respond
  to at least two of your classmates postings.

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• ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 5 Assignment Setup Times
  (Old)

• ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 5 DQ 1 Lean System (Old)

• It was a little past 900 on a Monday morning
  when Jeff Baker walked into your office with a
  box of donuts.
• Ive been talking with Anne about a problem we
  have with short-term capacity in our pad printing
  operation

• Lean System. 1) What trade-offs are involved in
  shifting from a traditional operations system to
  a lean system for A) A manufacturing firm? B) A
  service firm? 2) Who in the organization is
  affected by a decision to shift from a
  traditional operations system to a lean system?

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• ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 5 DQ 2 Preventive
  Maintenance (Old)

• ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 6 DQ 1 Critical Path (Old)

• Preventive Maintenance. Determine the optimum
  preventive maintenance frequency for each of the
  pieces of equipment if breakdown time is normally
  distributed Clearly label your calculations and
  describe using course related principles in 200
  words.
• Equipment
• Avg Time (days)between breakdowns
• Standard Deviation

• BUS 644 Week 6 DQ 1 Critical Path

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• ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 6 DQ 2 Waiting Lines (Old)

• ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 6 Final (Stickley Furniture)
  (Old)

• Waiting Lines. Trucks are required to pass
  through a weighing station so that they can be
  checked for weight violations. Trucks arrive at
  the station at the rate of 40 an hour between
  700 p.m. and 900 p.m. Currently two inspectors
  are on duty during those hours, each of whom can
  inspect 25 trucks an hour

• Focus of the Final Paper
• Read "Stickley Furniture" on pages 550-552 in
  your text. Answer questions 1-5. The final case
  study should demonstrate understanding of the
  reading as well as the implications of new
  knowledge